Anna DeCosta Banks- nursing Dr. Thaddeus J. Bell



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Science
Anna DeCosta Banks- nursing

Dr. Thaddeus J. Bell- physician

Charles Bolden- astronaut- Pre-K/K/M

James Roland Clark- Dr- Sickle Cell expert



Edward Sawyer Cooper- former President of the American heart Association

Everett L Dargan- thoracic, cardiovascular surgeon

Matilda Arabelle Evans- 1st African American female Dr.

Ernest Everett Just- Biologist

Jonas Thomas Kennedy- farmer

Raphael C. Lee- surgeon

Dr. Alonzo Clifton McClennan- health care pioneer

Ronald McNair- astronaut and physicist- Pre-K/K/M

Hemphill P. Pride- dentist



Edwin Roberts Russell- scientist- atomic bomb

Dori Sanders- peach farmer and writer

James F. Brown, DDS- dental surgeon

John W. Bluford, III- president and CEO of Truman Medical Center

Anna Love Boyd- nurse and educator

Alma Byrd, PhD- cofounder of Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation

William H. Carson, MD- developer of ABILIFY, a medicine to treat mental illness

Dr. Stuart A. Hamilton- CEO and founder of Eau Clair Cooperative Health Centers

Irene Trowell-Harris – 1st female African American general, National Guard and nurse
Technology
Paul and Wendy C. Brawley- Brawley Business-Government Solutions- tech consulting firm

Jeffrey Livingston- launched Achieva.com


Engineering
Willie Dereef- master boatbuilder

Philip Simmons- ironworker and blacksmith

Herbert A. DeCosta, Jr.- restoration consultant and contractor



Robert Satcher, MD, PhD- Orthopedic Oncology Surgeon, Astronaut, and Engineer- Pre-K/K/M

Henry “Dad” Brown- brick mason



John Henry Blanche Jr. - architect/engineer
Arts
Jenkin’s Orphanage Band members

Augusta Baker- librarian and storyteller

Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates- dancer

Kitty Black-Perkins- fashion designer/ Chief Designer of Fashions and Doll Concepts for Mattel’s Barbie

Chadwick Boseman- actor

James Brown- singer

Martin Douglass Cooper- fashion designer and photographer

Willis H. Crosby- radio legend

Beryl Dakers- filmmaker and journalist

Larry Doby- 1st African American in American League baseball

Dave Drake- Dave the Potter

Ethel Martin Bolden- groundbreaking Librarian



Eartha Kitt- singer actress

Etta Jones- jazz singer

William H. Johnson- Harlem Renaissance artist

Mamie “Peanut” Johnson- only female to pitch in Negro Leagues

Jarvis Brothers- Jubilee Gospel singers

Jesse Jackson

Ernest Henderson, Sr. - Flight Instructor

Alberta Tucker Grimes- organized 1st Head Start Program in SC



Jonathan Green- artist

Dizzy Gillespie- musician

Althea Gibson- athlete

Joe Frazier- champion boxer

Etu Evans- shoe designer

Pearl Moore- holds the women’s basketball point record

Mark and Sandra Myers- promoters of African American cowboy culture

Thales Thomas “Skipp” Pearson- jazz legend

Sarah Reese- opera singer

Richard Samuel Roberts- photographer



Arthur Rose, Sr. – painter and sculptor

Fouche’na Everlyne “Che” Sheppard- storyteller



Drink Small- blues musician

Bennie Lee Cunningham, Jr.- athlete, NFL player

Beryl Dakers- Journalist- Documentarian

Mac Arnold- Blues and R & B legend

Sandra Blake- award winning doll maker

Gwendolyn Bradley- opera singer

Marie and Will Van Brailey- Chair Caners

Craig Melvin- journalist

Harry Carson- NFL player and CEO and President of Harry Carson, Inc., a sports consulting and promotion company



Mary Jackson- artist and Sweetgrass basket maker

Darius Rucker- musician

Chubby Checker- musician

Chris Rock- entertainer

Viola Davis-actress

Vertamae Grosvenor- cook and author

Mike Colter- actor

Vivian Glover- Journalist

Math
J. Arthur Jones- mathematician

Lt. Col. Charity Edna Adams Earley- Mathematician and highest ranking achieved by an African American woman in WWII



Kelly Miller- mathematician

Gloria Hewitt- mathematician



Katherine Johnson- NASA Mathematician
Others
Robert Purvis- President of the Underground Railroad

Joseph Hayne Rainey- US Congressman- 1st African American to be elected to the House of Representatives and take his seat

Bishop Sanco King Rembert- 1st African American Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church

Charlotta Spears Bass- 1st African American to run for Vice President also a newspaper publisher

Mary McLeod Bethune- founded Bethune College

Ruth Ann Butler- founded Greenville Cultural Exchange



Septima Poinsette Clark- Civil Rights Leader

James Clyburn- politician

Clementa Pinckney- minister, advocate, politician, attorney



Rev. Joseph Armstrong DeLaine- helped end segregation in SC schools

Anna May Manigault Hurley- business owner- funeral home director and embalmer

Maxine Smith Martin- president and CEO of Trident Urban League

Cassandra Maxwell- 1st African American woman admitted to the SC Bar



Benjamin Elijah Mays- Civil Rights Leader and president of Morehouse College, and 1st African American president of Atlanta’s school board

Frieda Mitchell- director of United Communities for Child Development



General Lloyd “Fig” Newton- commander of Air Education and Training Command, US Air Force

Patty Jaye Garrett Patterson- law enforcement pioneer

Eugene Robinson- Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper columnist

Robert Smalls- slave who hijacked a confederate steamship and sailed to Union safety, captain in US Navy, and representative in US Congress

Juanita Willmon-Goggins- 1st African American woman elected to the SC General Assembly



Kimberly Aiken- Miss America 1994 and founder and president of HERO (Homeless Education and Resource Organization)

Webster Anderson- Congressional Medal of Honor for service in Vietnam War

Charles and Valerie Aiken- only African American licensed, Medicare-certified Home Health Agency in SC

Marjorie Amos-Frazier- Community leader

Luther J. Battiste, III, Esq.- lawyer, business leader

James E. Bostic, Jr. PhD- businessman



1st Lt. Leroy Bowman- Tuskegee Airman

Israel Brooks, Jr. - US Marshal

W. Melvin Brown- businessman

Marion Wright Edelman, Esq. - founded Washington Research Project/ Children’s Defense Fund

Patricia Sowell Harris- founder of Women’s Foodservice forum, Global Chief Diversity officer for McDonalds



Alonzo J. Ransier- Lt. Governor of SC

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